On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:52 AM, dd1313 vedanta...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi GUys
I am new to postfix, running unser ubuntu.I want to create a new email
address.
please help me do that
This is covered in the documentation. Maybe you can quote the
specific part you are having trouble with?
Actually I am taking over a server with postfix already installed , So I am
struggling to find my way
please help
Dev
Aaron Wolfe wrote:
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:52 AM, dd1313 vedanta...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi GUys
I am new to postfix, running unser ubuntu.I want to create a new email
* dd1313 vedanta...@gmail.com:
Actually I am taking over a server with postfix already installed , So I am
struggling to find my way
please help
What do you already know about email in general?
Do you need to create a new mail account or do you need to add another address
for an existing
could you point me to that part of the docs that refer to that.Actually I
know not what to do next.
I have logged in as root on ubuntu, what is next please
Thanks
Dev
Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
* dd1313 vedanta...@gmail.com:
Actually I am taking over a server with postfix already
dd1313 put forth on 1/31/2010 2:44 AM:
could you point me to that part of the docs that refer to that.Actually I
know not what to do next.
I have logged in as root on ubuntu, what is next please
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/add-a-user-on-ubuntu-server/
--
Stan
Yes I have a domain and need another email address at that domain created.It
was setup by a previous
administrator, now a new staff has joined and we need another email address.
for him
Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
* dd1313 vedanta...@gmail.com:
Actually I am taking over a server with
* dd1313 vedanta...@gmail.com:
Yes I have a domain and need another email address at that domain created.It
was setup by a previous administrator, now a new staff has joined and we
need another email address. for him
As a quick help run this and follow the command to add a new user- and
ok so let me get this right,a user created on the server is also created a
email address
we we don't have to go to some email server program to create an email
address.Is that correct
So I am asking if I create a new user with password.I can go to email client
and set him up to receive emails
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 1/31/2010 12:04 AM:
Sorry for top posting. Forgot to add something earlier: Proxymap seems to be
exiting on my system immediately after servicing requests. It does not seem
to
be obeying $max_use or $max_idle which are both set to 100. It did this even
before I
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:42:48 -0800 (PST)
dd1313 vedanta...@gmail.com replied:
Yes I have a domain and need another email address at that domain
created.It was setup by a previous
administrator, now a new staff has joined and we need another email
address. for him
PLEASE stop 'top posting'. If
No.I need to create a new email address for a new staff member.thats all
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Jerry postfix.u...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:42:48 -0800 (PST)
dd1313 vedanta...@gmail.com replied:
Yes I have a domain and need another email address at that domain
ok so let me get this right,a user created on the server is also created a
email address
Maybe, maybe not.
we we don't have to go to some email server program to create an email
address.Is that correct
You might, or you might not, but since we know less about your system than you
do,
te...@cnysupport.com wrote:
Quoting Ralph Blach chipp...@nc.rr.com:
On my linux system, I have uses with mixed case names.
I have one user RosaliE and I want her to get mail but postfix seems to
translate this rosalie.
How do I change this behaviour.
If this is a local user, AFAIK, you
Quoting Ralph Blach chipp...@nc.rr.com:
te...@cnysupport.com wrote:
Quoting Ralph Blach chipp...@nc.rr.com:
On my linux system, I have uses with mixed case names.
I have one user RosaliE and I want her to get mail but postfix seems to
translate this rosalie.
How do I change this
Ralph Blach wrote:
Thanks, I discovered this and I personally consider this a bug. In
these days, users names need to be mixed case for security reasons.
If I have a domain name I could just run through a list of well known
names, and then fill it up with mail.
I created mixed case user
Ralph Blach wrote:
CASE FOLDING
All delivery decisions are made using the bare recipient
name (i.e. the address localpart), folded to lower case.
http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html
Thanks, I discovered this and I personally consider this a bug. In
these days, users names need
Stan Hoeppner:
This is making good progress. Seeing the smtpd's memory footprint
drop so dramatically is fantastic. However, I'm still curious as
to why proxymap doesn't appear to be honoring $max_idle or $max_use.
Maybe my understanding of $max_use is not correct? It's currently
set to
Miles Fidelman:
Ralph Blach wrote:
CASE FOLDING
All delivery decisions are made using the bare recipient
name (i.e. the address localpart), folded to lower case.
http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html
Thanks, I discovered this and I personally consider this a bug. In
On 29-Jan-2010, at 18:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Their theory being that the default of ON makes it easier for spammers to
harvest addresses.
That's a pretty stupid theory though.
--
I don't care if Bill Gates is the world's biggest philanthropist.
The pain he has inflicted on the
On 31.01.2010 17:33, Miles Fidelman wrote:
It's not so much a bug as a direct violation of the SMTP spec. RFC2821,
par. 2.4, states:
The local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive.
Therefore, SMTP implementations
MUST take care to preserve the case of mailbox local-parts.
I am properly chastised.
I will change the names to lower case.
Chip
Wietse Venema wrote:
Miles Fidelman:
Ralph Blach wrote:
CASE FOLDING
All delivery decisions are made using the bare recipient
name (i.e. the address localpart), folded to lower case.
LuKreme wrote:
On 29-Jan-2010, at 18:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Their theory being that the default of ON makes it easier for spammers to
harvest addresses.
That's a pretty stupid theory though.
I recommend joining the spam-l list and joining the discussion there.
It was noted that the RFCs
Jacqui Caren-home:
It was noted that the RFCs mention VRFY as a feature but does not state that
it has to be enabled or disabled by default.
Citing RFC 2821:
Server implementations SHOULD support both VRFY and EXPN. For
security reasons, implementations MAY provide local installations a
On 31-Jan-2010, at 12:21, Wietse Venema wrote:
Server implementations SHOULD support both VRFY and EXPN. For
security reasons, implementations MAY provide local installations a
way to disable either or both of these commands through configuration
options or the equivalent.
And
Jacqui Caren-home put forth on 1/31/2010 12:47 PM:
I recommend joining the spam-l list and joining the discussion there.
I recommend against this. The topic is dead there now. One poster there
questioned why Wietse enabled it by default. I merely asked here so I could
post an official answer
Wietse Venema put forth on 1/31/2010 10:38 AM:
Stan Hoeppner:
This is making good progress. Seeing the smtpd's memory footprint
drop so dramatically is fantastic. However, I'm still curious as
to why proxymap doesn't appear to be honoring $max_idle or $max_use.
Maybe my understanding of
Stan Hoeppner:
Better: apply the long-term solution, in the form of the patch below.
This undoes the max_idle override (a workaround that I introduced
with Postfix 2.3). I already introduced the better solution with
Postfix 2.4 while solving a different problem.
I'm not sure if I fully
Wietse Venema put forth on 1/31/2010 7:34 PM:
Stan Hoeppner:
Better: apply the long-term solution, in the form of the patch below.
This undoes the max_idle override (a workaround that I introduced
with Postfix 2.3). I already introduced the better solution with
Postfix 2.4 while solving a
Noel Jones put forth on 1/29/2010 8:44 AM:
On 1/29/2010 1:37 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Local shows very speedy delivery. Is this long smtpd process
lifespan normal
for 2.5.5 or did I do something screwy/wrong in my config?
relay=local, delay=2.2, delays=2.2/0/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent
Hi there
I have a Postfix installation (postfix-2.6.5-1.rhel5) and I relay a
couple of remote ip addresses
(static adsl) of remote sites.
I cannot figure out how a spam originator fired some e-mails through my
mail server
using a specific remote IP, which was relayed
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